It's been awhile
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| Also listed in: Sidney Town Democratic Committee |
It's been pretty quiet here in Delaware County, NY. That's the way it gets at this time of year and we're a pretty sleepy kind of place anyway.
But we are making plans that, we hope, will start to wake people up even before the spring thaw.
One issue that is a very big deal up here (right behind voting machines) is energy.
Want to know why? It is, very simply, because here in the foothills of the Catskills, it gets cold and its one of the cloudiest places in the country. And that means the people who live here spend a lot of their money on keeping their homes and businesses warm and well-lit during the winter months.
Our Committee is planning a trio of public events to discuss the possibilities of different kinds of alternative energy - preferably locally owned and possibly municipally owned. We'll be talking about wind power, solar cell technology and - a logical place to look for power after last the floods last spring - hydroelectricity.
Just between you and me, I'll never understand why they built the East Sidney Dam and didn't outfit the thing for hydro.
Besides getting a much-needed discussion going here - do you know that I've never yet been able to talk to anybody in the community about the topic of economic development without ending up talking about energy? - we're hoping to smoke out some of our fellow Democrats and get them to sign up for a newsletter that the Committee will put together every month.
My Committee sort of likes that idea, even if they aren't excited about the extra work involved. But we need to use this great technology to help build our party. That is probably one of the greatest gifts that Howard Dean gave us during his 2004 primary run.
I'll try to get in here to update more often.
But we are making plans that, we hope, will start to wake people up even before the spring thaw.
One issue that is a very big deal up here (right behind voting machines) is energy.
Want to know why? It is, very simply, because here in the foothills of the Catskills, it gets cold and its one of the cloudiest places in the country. And that means the people who live here spend a lot of their money on keeping their homes and businesses warm and well-lit during the winter months.
Our Committee is planning a trio of public events to discuss the possibilities of different kinds of alternative energy - preferably locally owned and possibly municipally owned. We'll be talking about wind power, solar cell technology and - a logical place to look for power after last the floods last spring - hydroelectricity.
Just between you and me, I'll never understand why they built the East Sidney Dam and didn't outfit the thing for hydro.
Besides getting a much-needed discussion going here - do you know that I've never yet been able to talk to anybody in the community about the topic of economic development without ending up talking about energy? - we're hoping to smoke out some of our fellow Democrats and get them to sign up for a newsletter that the Committee will put together every month.
My Committee sort of likes that idea, even if they aren't excited about the extra work involved. But we need to use this great technology to help build our party. That is probably one of the greatest gifts that Howard Dean gave us during his 2004 primary run.
I'll try to get in here to update more often.
